The holidays are a great time to make new memories. They are also great times for those with hearing loss to learn new sounds and words, providing language development and language enhancement opportunities. The right hearing strategies can help set you or your child with hearing loss up for success this holiday season. Check out some holiday hearing […]

David K. had been a hearing aid user for years, but as his family started pointing out, he was missing a lot. Originally hesitant about getting a cochlear implant, David reflects that he wouldn’t have waited if he knew then what he knows now. With the Smart Bimodal Hearing Solution, pairing a Nucleus® Cochlear Implant in one […]

Earlier this year, Gael Hannan, well-known hearing loss writer and advocate, took the leap of getting a cochlear implant. Gael shared the journey to her cochlear implant and choosing the CochlearTM Kanso® Sound Processor on HearingHealthMatters.org in the seven-part series, “Changing Cochleas” (see the series here). She shares more of her journey below: By Gael […]

Struggling in hearing aids, Ed W.’s hearing declined so much that he was forced to retire from his two passions: playing music and teaching children to play music. Ed began closing himself off from the world, but when he learned he was a candidate for a cochlear implant, he jumped at the opportunity to get […]

Many of you may have heard that talking to your children is important to their development. But why? Cochlear implant surgeon Dana Suskind founded the Thirty Million Words program in Chicago after discovering that language-rich environments affected whether her young patients learned to talk. In an interview with the Boston Globe, Dr. Suskind states,

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